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Mithila closed the diary. The papers were already showing signs of sogginess. She stuffed it into her pack, and stood. The day had worn on, and around her, the world glistened in the aftermath of rain...

7. The Story of the First Civilizations: From Mesopotamia to the Aztecs by Subhadra Sen Gupta; Speaking Tiger; Rs 499 Posthumously published after children’s author Subhadra Sen Gupta’s u...

Riva Razdan is a New York University graduate and currently working as a screenwriter and author based in Mumbai. Her debut novel Arzu was published by Hachette India in 2021 ...

Penner complicates the historical timeline by introducing the character of the precocious servant girl, Eliza Fanning, who is given the onerous task of procuring poison and administering it to her adu...

The book’s latter half is devoted to Raza’s life in France and his meteoric rise to fame. This part, often neglected in the discourse of modern Indian art, narrates his marriage to the Fre...

One of his favourite anecdotes is about two men driving along in a car who see a man in pyjamas with his chin covered in shaving foam carrying something like a football under his arm. They struggle to...

Llewellyn-Jones writes in the Introduction that of the three properties to be inventoried, Château de Lyon and Constantia were in Lucknow, and Najafgarh near Kanpur (he had properties in Calcutt...

400 Days has a chilling plotline –– a missing child. However, it does not simply end at that. As one of India’s highest-selling and most popular authors, Chetan Bhagat needs no intro...

A recently published Timelines from Indian History: From Ancient Civilizations to a Modern Democracy is a well-researched encyclopaedia that takes children through Indian History in bit-sized formats....

Riva Razdan is a New York University graduate and currently working as a screenwriter and author based in Mumbai. Her debut novel Arzu was published by Hachette India in 2021 ...